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Old 08-05-2008, 03:15 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Stewart Robert Hinsley Stewart Robert Hinsley is offline
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"Cat(h)" writes
On May 8, 12:53*pm, Des Higgins wrote:
On May 8, 12:54 pm, Charlie Pridham
wrote:

In article ,
says... Hi All. *A friend in Germany
(western-central) has asked me if I can
possibly find out what the following flowers are he has growing
at the side
of his drive - they appear every Spring apparently. *The pic he
has emailed
me isn't the best as it's not a close up, but still maybe
somebody can shed
some light on what it is. *Many thanks.


Tracey


http://www.picturebay.net/img/guests/Brian_flower.jpg


Not sure but I think its a campanula (the species begins with p and has
an unreasonable amount of letters in it!)


Campanula polypopodopolous (Macedonian Bell Flower?)


You've just made this up, haven't you?

Cat(h)


If you feel a need to check

URL:http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNam...nus=Campanula&
find_species=poly*
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Stewart Robert Hinsley